Traci Van Wagoner

A New Post Where I Ask for Your Help It’s a brand new year and I’m diving back into my mourning doves picture book. It was on pause for a short time while illustrating Carlos Crosses the Border now available here . I’m at a crossroads with the cover and title, and I’m looking for your input. I’m moving along with the artwork and part of the process is finding the best title and cover art that gives the flavor of the book, a peek at what readers will find inside. I want to cre

Get a behind the scenes look at the beginnings of an idea for a picture book inspired by nature in the city. I was delighted to wake one morning to the noisy going-ons of a mourning dove couple setting up home in my top floor window in the back of the building. Over the first summer of the pandemic I was privileged to watch the development of two families from the same couple and was inspired to write a story about it and how it effected my life and brought a new sense of won

Another picture book creation journey begins where a pair of mourning doves nest in my window, and I pose a question: bars or no bars on the windows?